Friday, November 30, 2018

6. Set your face against evil. You will encounter evil within and evil without on a daily basis. Stand against all of it, without fear, without hesitation, and without remorse. And when you fail, when you give into temptation, when you are defeated, regroup, repent, and rise again.

7. Do what is right. Learn to listen to the still, small voice of conscience. Do what you know to be right, not what you can rationalize, justify, or excuse. If you have to talk yourself into something, then you probably already know in your heart of hearts that you are doing the wrong thing.

8. Tell the truth in kindness. It is too hard and too exhausting to spend all your mental energies trying to keep track of an ever-growing multitude of exaggerations, false narratives, self-serving spins, and outright lies. Just tell the truth, as you best understand it, without taking pride in it or using it to hurt others.

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Stand against all of it, without fear, without hesitation, and without remorse.

I think that, having adopted the leftwing weltanschauung, modern whites -- especially conservatives -- suffer PTSD after violating liberal taboos. Even though they may have performed a Biblically righteous act, they can't repeat it in the future because of remorse for some fake sin. Too many conservatives start out on the right path, but after making one significant correct decision, the world convinces them it hurt someone else.

We need to pull whites out of conservatism so that they don't respect the liberal taboos.

I decided to dip into the trifecta of awfulness that is Shapiro and Peterson on Rubin. Peterson just declared that the highest ethical practice is child sacrifice, as the others nodded along. I wish this was sarcasm.

@12"Peterson just declared that the highest ethical practice is child sacrifice"

I am guessing he was talking about Abraham and Isaac.... I mean, I remember his take on that, that sacrifice developed as symbolic expression of the understanding that the universe favors those who are willing to sacrifice something they value, perhaps even what you value most. He talks about the Jesus sacrifice as the archetypal example of this...

There are still small voices from both sides, including evil ones that say "everything will be fine" and convince you to not act, or to not really fight but only complain. They also turn around and suggest some sin isn't really a sin, or won't be a problem, etc.But the other side prompts action, or avoidance of sin. You need to discern, but mostly not let your will be swayed by passions. Pray and read scripture - it should reveal the correct path if you let it.

The thing that advantages protestants is they don't have the liturgy or rosary or set things, so they pray and read scripture. But scripture doesn't clarify everything, so the fragmentation is a feature, not a bug. Each is trying to please God, obeying commandments without being legalistic.

Even for Catholics there is an indulgance for reading the Bible for 30 minutes. Few do it.

Peaceful Poster, read 3 Chronicles 18-19, I think. Elijah encountered the LORD not in a hurricane, earthquake, or fire, but on the small voice that spoke to him after the fire. Elijah then hid his face in righteous fear of the Lord.

Secular pseudo-stoic "virtue" like this will always fail. If the universe is a brute chemical process set in motion at the big bang, then there is no truth, and no right and wrong, and that will always be so no matter how hard the Globalists try.

This quotation from another article in my news feed today seems relevant:

“I shall no longer ask myself if this or that is expedient, but only if it is right. I shall do this, not because I am noble or unselfish, but because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie…. I am lost when I balance this against that, I am lost when I ask if this is safe…. Therefore I shall try to do what is right, and to speak what is true. I do this not because I am courageous and honest, but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul. I do it because I am no longer able to aspire to the highest with one part of myself, and to deny it with another. I do not wish to live like that, I would rather die than live like that. I understand better those who have died for their convictions, and have not thought it was wonderful or brave or noble to die. They died rather than live, that was all.”

I've gotten to the point to where I absolutely cannot bear to hear Jordy's voice. I just can't bear it!

I never was on board with him. He came to my attention after that interview he did with blonde SJW woman on BBC. Jordy did well in that exchange and made it to my "TO DO" list, but I never got around to looking into him before Vox did.

So I was favorably inclined towards him, but not sold on him. Once again I have to thank Vox for taking the time to examine this creature and suffering through the word-salad nightmare of "Maps of Meaning" and other such tendentious academic bafflegab garbage.

Now, whenever I hear him speak my skin crawls. This ought to be the default reaction to any of these bafflegabbers from academia, or rather I hope it becomes the default reaction. They are such con artists, almost to a man. If what you have to say is well-meant and spoken for the actual purpose of COMMUNICATION, no need exists for bafflegab.

Bafflegab is designed for the opposite of communication. Bafflegab is designed to win the day through sheer exhaustion.

7. Do what is right. Learn to listen to the still, small voice of conscience. Do what you know to be right, not what you can rationalize, justify, or excuse.

As a corollary, practice virtue when the stakes are small, and it will be easier to do the right thing when it's hard.

I know a guy who was fired for taking candy from a candy dish on an office desk, and I think it was the right call. The Rationalization Hamster will say, "Well the cost is so small that it doesn't matter"; but another way of looking at the same thing is, "If he couldn't resist such a small temptation, how can I trust him with anything big?"

So when a night-shift security officer was caught on webcam taking candy from the candy dish on a desk in a locked office -- not once, but night after night, which is why the camera was put in place -- it was not to his credit that the trust he violated was small. Because the exact same factor applied to how little it would've cost him to buy his own damn candy, and what if the temptation was bigger than ten cents?

Watch what a man does when the stakes are small, feel your resentment when he doesn't even bother to resist a tiny temptation, and remember it when you're tempted yourself.

Dave wrote:I'm still waiting for Amazon to give me the updated cover for An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity that came out, what, last year?

Try deleting it from your computer/device and re-downloading. The ebook format that Amazon uses (Mobipocket) treats the cover as basically metadata, so it would take a separate effort to update it with the text, and thoroughness is inefficient and therefore a production vice.

SciVo wrote:Dave wrote:I'm still waiting for Amazon to give me the updated cover for An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity that came out, what, last year?

Try deleting it from your computer/device and re-downloading. The ebook format that Amazon uses (Mobipocket) treats the cover as basically metadata, so it would take a separate effort to update it with the text, and thoroughness is inefficient and therefore a production vice.

Yeah, did that multiple times on multiple devices. It's quite funny when I still see it pop up now and then on the Vox Popoli sidebar.

Might not work.... I deleted and redownloaded Jordanetics half a dozen times and didn't get the Appendix C. I looked up how to manually force an update from your Amazon account; that worked immediately.

People: Show some love for the 5-star reviews at Amazon. Currently, and quite all of a sudden, one of the few 1-star reviews has received a torrent of "helpful" votes and is now the first review displayed.

Borrowed from KU, read, review posted, and other reviews marked as helpful.

I've done all I can, time for another hearty soul to tag in and do their part.

Thanks for writing the book VD.

I got off the JBP train after his crawfish move on Faith Goldy, but it's nice to see solid proof that I wasn't wrong to make that call, and to have something concrete to point people at who've been snowed by him but might still be saveable.

"I know a guy who was fired for taking candy from a candy dish on an office desk, and I think it was the right call."

Big deal, get off your high horse. The real crooks steal peoples souls, lives, dignity and trillions of dollars and other priceless things. Yeah, but make hay about some underpaid security guard getting some candy from dish *rolls eyes*

@50 I knew a cleaning lady at work that got fired for taking a 50 cent cookie that was left out. The man that fired her was no angel himself and will answer to Jesus BUT that doesn't mean that the firing wasn't for the ladies own good. The Lord is our shepherd and will use bullies as his rod and staff as he sees fit.

"I knew a cleaning lady at work that got fired for taking a 50 cent cookie that was left out. The man that fired her was no angel himself and will answer to Jesus BUT that doesn't mean that the firing wasn't for the ladies own good.

Maybe she was hungry since she was probably underpaid too!? Jesus Christ get a heart/clue. Meanwhile you churchians/Cuckservatives will give a pass to the real criminals WHO ALSO strain out a gnat while swallowing a camel. Please tell me what state you live in so I never make the misfortune of moving there.

Isn't candy in a dish in an office left out for people to take? It's freely offered, that's the point. For example, in my neck of the woods most reception desks have a bowl of candy left out for people, especially around the holidays.There's no "stealing" involved, unless you grab handfuls of the stuff and gobble the whole cache yourself without leaving any over for others.

Don't like the "small still voice" stuff. Since Most People Are Idiots, you don't want them interpreting morality or even making up their own moral rules and then fanatically pursuing them. "I must disinherit my first-born son, because he wore tennis shoes once as a teenager, which was against the house rules. This may seem foolish to the world, but it is for his own good, for I must follow the small, still voice within myself and be a man of integrity." No way.

If you have to UNLOCK A LOCKED DOOR to get at what is "freely offered", then you are obviously doing something you should not. Especially when the company went to the trouble of installing a camera to find out who was doing it.

"If you have to UNLOCK A LOCKED DOOR to get at what is "freely offered"

Uhhh everybody who goes through there has TO UNLOCK THE SAME DOOR especially if it has a card reader are they wrong in taking the candy too? What's the point in leaving it out then, why don't they just put away in a safe somewhere where even the guard can't get too it? A camera for a public bowl of candy, Ya right? Stupid.

"gamma male: you are sort of the "invisible" guy. there is nothing really spectacular about you. you are not a beta, but neither are you an alpha. your personality and presence usually blends in with the rest of the room and you're just sort of...there. people like you just fine and you usually don't have too much trouble with girls, but all the same, there is nothing particularly memorable or remarkable about you. you are not a born leader nor a inherent follower, although you can take on those tasks depending on the situation"

@53 Poor pay but fair. Everyone 'felt' like it was overly harsh punishment. She was fired by the corporation but the subcontractor that actually paid her wages just moved her to another client. No real harm done. You need to resolve your anger issues so that you can see a bigger picture. All of us have lessons to learn. Does getting fired kill a person?

I live in central Illinois. No one in their right mind would want to move into this soon to be bankrupt state. The only reason I haven't moved back to east Tennessee is that I'm with in a 15 minute drive of my grand kids. That may change if the taxes go up enough to satisfy the states creditors.